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Should I get the R7 370 4GB or 2GB?

 

Neither, the GTX 950 is better

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What is a budget friendly GPU for light gaming and Flight simulators? I've been thinking of the GTX 950, but I don't know how long the GPU will last for me. My budget is $120-$200.

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Should I get the R7 370 4GB or 2GB?

The 370 I don't think can utilise 4gb. 2gb should be fine for light gaming anyway. Mine is still going fine.

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If you're doing flight simulator stuff and you're really going to get into it then go for an R7 370 4GB, the extra memory can help because those flight sims are terrible unstable and also try to get as much ram as possible (minimum 8GB)

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If you're doing flight simulator stuff and you're really going to get into it then go for an R7 370 4GB, the extra memory can help because those flight sims are terrible unstable and also try to get as much ram as possible (minimum 8GB)

X-Plane 9/10 and Lockheed Prepar3D are not "terribly unstable". I have run X-Plane 9 on a single core Celeron with 2GB of RAM, and it was stable (barely, getting 25FPS all the time). Anyways, I guess I'll go with the GTX 950, it's not a rebrand of an older card and has a slightly lower power consumption. Also, the second-gen Maxwell architecture is much newer than the GCN 1.0 architecture for the R7 370.

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Neither, the GTX 950 is better

Well you can get a 960 for under 200 :/ What about that one?

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